East of Pueblo the county roads run straight for miles, and after a north wind the drifts across them come up in long clean ridges you could measure with a yardstick. T-Rex Tractor Service LLC brings the equipment those jobs actually take, pushing snow off long lanes, wide driveways and open lots out through Vineland and Avondale and back into town. Acreage changes the math — a place with a quarter mile of gravel between the house and the road needs a machine, not a shovel. There is a real pleasure in the first pass, when the blade opens a white field and lays the ground back down in two dark stripes. After that it is all finishing: the turnaround, the gate, the patch by the barn.